Social Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme introduces students to the diversity of social archaeology; provides them with experiences in reading complex data-specific and/or theoretical texts; and allows them to develop a regionally or chronologically specific area of expertise; graduates are in a good position to gain employment in archaeology, heritage and related industries, or to conduct research in archaeology or a cognate discipline.(read more)

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Ceramic and Lithic Analysis for Archaeologists MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme builds on our established international reputation in ceramics and lithics; the School supports scientific and socially oriented research, with intensive practical teaching, and a dynamic and innovative approach to assemblages, integrating theory and methodology; this is an ideal entry to commercial archaeological ceramics/lithics analysis, or to further academic research.(read more)

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Conflict Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides a broad-based training in the archaeology of conflict from the Palaeolithic to the Cold War and beyond; taking a global perspective, the course covers warfare in prehistory; battlefield and siege archaeology in the historic period; the preservation and study of the remains of war in our own age; and issues of conservation and remembrance.(read more)

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Regional and Local Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Depending on the choice of modules and previous experience in the relevant subject or related discipline, students graduate with an award in either both archaeology and history or in regional and local archaeology or in regional and local history, with a detailed working knowledge of the ways in which the local and regional past is accessible to analysis.(read more)

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Classical Art and Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The Master's programme in classical art and archaeology is organised on an intercollegiate basis, so that the programme offerings combine the expertise of staff in all 3 of the participating colleges; it centres on the University's institute of classical studies.(read more)

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Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is suitable for graduates in other disciplines who require a wide-ranging basic course in archaeology; flexibility in the choice of options also makes it suitable for archaeology graduates wishing to extend the range of their knowledge; components include archaeological techniques; selected periods in prehistoric, Greek, Roman and medieval archaeology; a special subject; and a dissertation.(read more)

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Osteoarchaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme provides a thorough grounding in the analytical approaches to human and faunal bone identification, and to the wider social, cultural and economic issues raised through the interpretation of archaeological bone assemblages; students receive training in bone identification, palaeopathology and analysis, and will explore the associated intrinsic problems and potential.(read more)

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Archaeology of the Transmanche MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course has a regional focus on the rich archaeological record of south-east England and the near continent, especially through the first millennia BC and AD.(read more)

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Palaeolithic Archaeology and Human Origins MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme offers a unique opportunity to study the rich, global archaeological evidence of our earliest origins, using Palaeolithic and Quaternary archives; student are trained in the practical analysis of Palaeolithic stone artefacts, and encouraged to place this knowledge into a broad framework, based on current interdisciplinary research, enabling them to investigate the key questions in human evolution.(read more)

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Medieval Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed to provide expertise in all aspects of medieval material culture, including both buildings and artefacts; it embraces the dark age and Anglo-Saxon periods as well as the medieval; taught modules comprise 120 credits, including a 15-credit core research methods module which provides students with a range of skills necessary for PhD research; the remaining 60 credits are allotted to the dissertation.(read more)

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Archaeological Illustration MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides graduates who are able to enter the profession as specialist practitioners and/or researchers; the course concentrates on the acquisition to a high level of the practical skills of illustration preparation within the context of the investigative and research ethos of the archaeological process, and the communication of archaeological discovery to others.(read more)

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Underwater Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course provides students with a sound practical, methodological and theoretical grounding in underwater archaeology allowing the skills necessary for a career in the subdiscipline to be developed; as well as a dissertation, students take a research methods module and modules in freshwater, maritime and underwater archaeology.(read more)

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Practical Archaeology MA

Study modes: Distance with attendance | Part time evening

Course description: The course introduces students to the practitioners and organizations operating within the profession; provides hands-on practical training in fieldwork and analytical techniques; includes experience of dealing with ‘live project data’ in real field archaeology situations.(read more)

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Roman Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed to provide students with a detailed study of core aspects of the archaeology of the Roman world, whether or not they wish to proceed to PhD research; a range of options in Roman archaeology is available, including Roman Africa (with a 1-week study tour in Tunisia) and the possibility of taking a city of Rome module at the British school in Rome (both modules carry supplementary charges).(read more)

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Archaeological Research MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed to provide the necessary skills and training for candidates intending to proceed to PhD research; there is a 15-credit core research methods module that provides students with a range of skills necessary for PhD research and students can choose further components of 25 credits from modules available in archaeology or where appropriate, in other subjects.(read more)

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Celtic Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Course is designed to allow students to further their undergraduate interest in archaeology or a related subject, and to develop the skills and knowledge needed if they decided to undertake further research into the past; modular degree scheme includes a choice of specialist modules in aspects of Celtic archaeology, theory and interpretation in Celtic archaeology and training modules to develop relevant skills.(read more)

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Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme includes a series of day and longer visits to view sites and material, to do practical work, and to attend seminars and lectures at partner institutions such as the other universities in the transmanche partnership, the flemish heritage institute, university of ghent and the institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives.(read more)

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Archaeological Materials MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The focus of the course is on ceramics, metals and glasses: their structures, compositions, production techniques, the archaeological evidence for their manufacture (involving archaeological case studies), and ethnographic examples; students study aspects of the extraction, production and distribution of ancient materials through lectures, seminars and practicals.(read more)

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Maritime Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme provides a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of maritime archaeology; it investigates submerged landscapes, maritime cultures and shipwrecks, and intensive practical instruction in specific field techniques is an integral feature.(read more)

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Regional and Local History and Archaeology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Regional, local history and archaeology at Winchester aims to provide students with a detailed working knowledge of the ways in which the local and regional past is accessible to analysis; enabling students to graduate with an award in either both archaeology and history or in regional and local archaeology or in regional and local history (depending on the choice of modules and previous experience in the relevant subject or related discipline).(read more)

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